What’s Bugging You?

A Cyberhunt Activity on Infectious Disease

By Dawn Hall for Biomedical Technology

Click on the link for the Immune Platoon

http://www.bam.gov/sub_diseases/diseases_immuneplatoon.htmlTravel through the Immune Platoon presentation to answer the following

questions

1. What organs in the body produce immune system cells? Draw a diagram on your answer sheets and label the organs.

2. What type of cells do these tissues produce to attack the body’s enemies?

The Immune Platoon

3. What are the foreign bodies that act as enemies called?

4. List three ways the Immune Platoon prevents these foreign bodies from harming you.

Click on the Vaccine tab

5. What is a vaccine?

Click on the Disease Tab

6. What is West Nile Virus? After reading click on the CDC link and find the fact sheet. List the symptoms and the cause and vector of West Nile Virus.

7. What is the EPA?

Back at the diesase tab click on SARS

8. What is SARS? Where did it start? When?

Click on the Operation Infection Tab

9. What is epidemiology?

10.What are the four techniques the CDC uses analyze, investigate and problem solve to keep you healthy?

Click on the Disease Detective tab

11.Who is the Victor Vector?

12.What is a vector?

Click on this link:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bioterror/vacc_flash.html13.After completing the interactive Making a

Vaccine activity , list and describe the six types of vaccines.

Click:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bioterror/agents.html

14.List the eight agents of bioterror that pose the greatest threat.

15.Briefly describe the following:

• Botulism

• Anthrax

• Cholera

• plaque

Click:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bioterror/faq.html

16.After reading the fact sheet, list 10 important points you’ve learned about bioterrorism.

Click:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bioterror/hist_nf.html

17.How was bioterror used in Medieval times?

18.What are soviet “superbugs”?

19.What form of bioterror has most recently been used in the U.S.

20.What types of bioterror have been weaponized by Iraq?

Clickhttp://www.nanobugs.com/activities/videos.php

21.What is Hepatitis A?

22.What are the symptoms?

23.How is it spread?

Click:http://www.nanobugs.com/nanobugs/glossary.php

24.Define the following:

• Antibody

• Bacteria

• Virus

• Pathogen

• Fungus

• spore

Click:http://www.cdc.gov/DiseasesConditions/

25. Research the following infectious diseases. List the causative organism, symptoms, treatment, and prognosis for each.

• HIV• MRSA• Salmonella• Herpes• Smallpox• Common Cold• Influenza• Measles• Mumps• Rotovirus

Click:http://www.cdc.gov/DiseasesConditions/

26. Research the following infectious diseases. List the causative organism, symptoms, treatment, and prognosis for each.

• Ringworm• Histoplasmosis• Giardia• Malaria• Schistosoma(Swimmers Itch)• Trichinella• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease• Plaque• Ebola• Legionaire Disease

Click:http://www.cdc.gov/DiseasesConditions/

27. Research the following infectious diseases. List the causative organism, symptoms, treatment, and prognosis for each.

• Rubeloa• Tuberculosis• Lyme Disease• SARS

• Cholera

Click:http://emergency.cdc.gov/

• Bioterrorism Unit

Click:http://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/ricin/

• Ricin information

Click:http://www.cdc.gov/Environmental/

• Environmental Health Issues